Dali Kilani

French startup FlexAI exits stealth with $30M to ease access to AI compute tcrn.ch/3JzhZty

Hot Take: Anthropic will acquire Linear. Coding is solved post-Opus 4.5. All the devs building CLIs and IDEs are working at the wrong level of abstraction. Why? The current bottlenecks in Agents are: - PR Reviews (h/t @rfgarcia). For side projects, Greptile can autonomously handle PRs (@Steve_Yegge didn't write a single line of code for Beads, 140k LOC). For prod deployments, the CTO still needs to have an understanding of what is happening, and to socialize those learnings organization-wide for cross-functional product roadmapping. - Agent Orchestration - This is being solved by Agent Cloud Mail by @doodlestein (built on Beads) , @TaskmasterAI by @EyalToledano. @intelligenceco is trying to solve this in the general agent scenario, but it will be solved in coding first. - Memory, but not an issue in coding with task decomposition and graph-based dependency planning a la Beads. The future will look like Technical PMs/Designers, CEOs, CTOs, and Staff Engineers working out of Linear/Asana (the company coordination layer), directing Swarms of Coding Agents, occasionally dropping into Cursor/CC for deeper understanding and debugging. Generation is solved. The frontier is Orchestration - the logical next step on Karpathy's "autonomy slider". 3-6 months.

I stole this idea and now use it with every single employee. It’s the best illustration I’ve seen of teaching someone to be high agency. It says there are 5 levels of work: Level 1: “There is a problem.” Level 2: “There is a problem, and I’ve found some causes.” Level 3: “Here’s the problem, here are some possible causes, and here are some possible solutions.” Level 4: “Here’s the problem, here’s what I think caused it, here are some possible solutions, and here’s the one I think we should pick.” Level 5: “I identified a problem, figured out what caused it, researched how to fix it, and I fixed it. Just wanted to keep you in the loop.” Using this framework, here’s what I say to every new employee… You will live at Level 4 from Day 1 and as we build trust you will rise to Level 5. Being high agency doesn’t just mean tackling problems in this way. It means your entire way of working should be oriented to being a Level 4+ employee. Plz feel free to steal it as well. And ty @stephsmithio for the framework!

It's not about GPUs anymore; it's all about POWER. A comment from a $GOOGL employee working on datacenters: Getting GPUs and TPUs is not a bottleneck. "Power, lack of available power, reliable power has become the biggest bottleneck for us." on @AlphaSenseInc

.@pmarca: "The person who writes down the thing has tremendous power." In most companies, almost no one does it. If you can turn chaos into a coherent plan on paper, people will follow your lead, whether you have the title or not.

0/ Autonomous agents are about to become Ethereum’s biggest power users. Guest thread from @kleffew94 and @MurrLincoln on how a long-forgotten HTTP status code, ‘402 Payment Required’ could unlock a new frontier for Ethereum: agentic commerce. 🧵

1/N I’m excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world’s most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO).